Alex Pretti’s family says they have no answers nine months after federal agents killed him
The parents of Alex Pretti, an American man shot and killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, are accusing the Department of Justice of violating their rights under a federal victims’ rights law, as they demand transparency and justice in their son’s death. In a July letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, an attorney representing Michael and Susan Pretti wrote they have not received any substantive updates from the DOJ regarding an investigation into their son’s death, and called the DOJ’s attitude toward the case cruel. “The government’s pattern of conduct is not only unconscionable, but unlawful,” the letter says. The letter goes on to say the Pretti family met with U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Dan Rosen on July 13, the same day Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in a news conference that federal officials had handed over volumes of…
